Pi 400 slarm64-current not booting
by pchristy from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5C59T)
Long time slacker, but new to ARM! For Xmas, my family bought me a Pi 400. I managed to get sarpi / slackwarearm-current running on it, and while xfce worked OK, kde4 seemed buggy. After querying the availablity of VLC, I was pointed towards slarm64-current, which seems to most closely resemble the slackware64-current that I am familiar with.
I've downloaded the latest base-rootfs image for the Pi4 and installed it on a uSD card, but I can't get it to boot. The black level on the monitor dips up and down a bit, and the power light flashes, but otherwise, no sign of life.
Clearly I've missed something!I've tried creating the boot card using both zstdcat and dd methods described in the readme, to no avail. It looks as if it is failing to find the kernel, or whatever precedes the kernel loading. No error messages, just nothing!
Raspbian loads OK, as does sarpi (32-bit). I'm about to try sarpi64, but not being familiar with the ARM boot process, I've no idea how to update the (rather old) kernels that come with sarpi64.
Any advice gratefully received!
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Pete
I've downloaded the latest base-rootfs image for the Pi4 and installed it on a uSD card, but I can't get it to boot. The black level on the monitor dips up and down a bit, and the power light flashes, but otherwise, no sign of life.
Clearly I've missed something!I've tried creating the boot card using both zstdcat and dd methods described in the readme, to no avail. It looks as if it is failing to find the kernel, or whatever precedes the kernel loading. No error messages, just nothing!
Raspbian loads OK, as does sarpi (32-bit). I'm about to try sarpi64, but not being familiar with the ARM boot process, I've no idea how to update the (rather old) kernels that come with sarpi64.
Any advice gratefully received!
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Pete